Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First was to Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin who had invited him to a Progressive conference in Chicago: "In this campaign we must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt...
When the truth is known about the Roosevelt Administration, the Harding Administration, with its Ohio Gang, will look like a convention of Sunday school superintendents...
...Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys who profit out of a Depression are the gang who are pleased to call themselves financiers. . . . The wages of money have risen while the wages of men have gone down...
...gunman, Bass did not amount to much. His great claim to fame lay in his having taken a minor part in a train robbery at Big Springs, Neb. in 1877, and getting one-sixth of the $60,000 loot. He then led a gang, operating out of Denton, Tex. that held up four trains in a few weeks. The biggest haul, however, was only $1,280, to be divided among four men. Bass dodged Rangers and posses for a year, was betrayed by a spy in his gang, pinked while preparing to rob a bank at Round Rock...
Sons Junius Spencer Morgan, 44, and Henry Sturgis Morgan, 35, were on the station platform, smoking pipes. Also on hand was a gang of reporters and cameramen. The sons showed themselves affable to the newsmen, tried uselessly to persuade them to take no pictures...